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Department of Agriculture ; A. J. Pieters, as first assistant in botany in the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington ; Dr. Antonio Porta, to be assistant 

 in the zoological museum of the University of Parma ; Prof. C. S. Prosser, of 

 Union College, Schenectady, New York, as associate professor of historical 

 geology at Ohio State University, Columbus ; Dr. Francis Ramaley, of the 

 University of Minnesota, to be professor of biology in the University of 

 Colorado, at Boulder, in succession to Prof. John Gardiner, retired ; Dr. A. L. 

 Rimbach, as ad interim instructor in vegetable physiology and pathology in the 

 University of Nebraska, to allow Prof. Bessey to give the necessary time to the 

 duties of acting chancellor ; Dr. Friedrich Schenck, as professor extraordinarius 

 of physiology in the University of Wiirzburg ; Hermann von Schrenk, as a 

 special agent of the Department of Agriculture at Washington to study diseases 

 of trees ; James Y. Simpson, M.A., B.Sc, lecturer on natural science in the 

 Free Church College, Glasgow ; Dr. Otto Stapf, as chief assistant in the Kew 

 Herbarium ; H. G. Timberlake, as instructor in botany in the University of 

 Wisconsin ; Dr. Weinschenck, as docent for mineralogy and geology in the 

 Technical School of Miinchen ; Dr. Karl Wenle, as directorial assistant in the 

 ethnological museum in Leipzig. 



The Council of the University of Melbourne will shortly appoint a professor 

 to the chair of Geology and Mineralogy. The professor is expected to devote the 

 whole of his time to the work of his department, and will be required to deliver 

 two courses of lectures of three hours a week each, and to undertake the training 

 of students both in field and laboratory work. The salary of the professor is 

 £1000 per annum, but in the event of the Council providing him with a 

 residence in the University grounds, the sum of <£100 per annum will be 

 deducted from his salary as aforesaid. The University has a fair collection in 

 palaeontology and mineralogy, but has no specially fitted up laboratory for 

 geological work. A suitable room in the University buildings will be provided 

 in which to organise this part of the work. Lectures begin in 1900, on 

 Thursday, March 1. The salary of the office will commence from the 14th 

 February 1900, or from the date of the professor's arrival in Melbourne, if later 

 than the 14th February. If the professor appointed come from Britain or 

 America, £100 will be allowed for travelling expenses. Applications for the 

 vacant chair must be sent to the office of the Acting Agent-General for Victoria, 

 15 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, by October 20, 1899. 



At a meeting of the General Committee of the British Association on Sep- 

 tember 15, Professor Sir William Turner was elected president of next year's 

 meeting of the Association, to be held at Bradford. 



A. Targioni-Tozetti has been elected an ordinary fellow of the Reale 

 Accademia dei Lincei in the Department of Agriculture ; A. Borzi as a corre- 

 sponding fellow in the same department, and F. Delpino for botany. The list 

 of foreign fellows includes — for geology and palaeontology, O. Torell, A. de 

 Lapparent, and R. Lepsius ; for botany, W. Pfeffer ; for zoology, Ernst Haeckel 

 and E. van Beneden ; for physiology, E. Pfliiger and E. Hering — a notable list, 

 but without any British representative. 



Prof. E. Pfliiger, the famous physiologist of Bonn, recently celebrated his 

 70th birthday. 



Prof. C. J. Herrick of Denison University has been awarded the Cartwright 

 prize of $500 by Columbia University for his work on the brain of fishes. 



The Academie Internationale de Geographie Botanique has conferred its 

 international scientific medal upon Prof. John M. Coulter. 



It is noted in Science that the Alvarenga prize of the College of Physicians 

 of Philadelphia has been awarded to Dr. Robert L. Randolph of Baltimore for 

 his essay entitled " The Regeneration of the Crystalline Lens : An Experi- 

 mental Study." 



